Li-Ming Hu Dynasty

Andrea Fraser's Official Welcome in song because sometimes such things are necessary. @skowheganart #andreafraser

I'm hard pressed to think of anyone who addresses the ambivalence of participating in the art world as well as Andrea Fraser. She is one of my all time faves and I'm honored to be doing a performance based on her 2008 lecture @skowheganart next Friday Jan 30. 6.30 pm, a tight 45 mins at the Skowhegan offices in NYC. RSVP info in bio. In Echoes Research Committee, we seek to continue the tradition of learning and listening together. By revisiting and growing the dispersal of Skowhegan’s Lecture Archive, we welcome new ears into our broader community. We invite an artist to select a lecture from the archival recordings and “perform” it anew, creating a reverberation for contemporary audiences. This series is developed in collaboration with @bryson_d_rand , member of Skowhegan’s Alumni Alliance.

Echoes Research Committee: Li-Ming Hu on Andrea Fraser Friday, January 30, 2026, 6:30PM Skowhegan NYC Join us in New York for our first public program of the year. “Echoes Research Committee” is an ongoing series, which invites artists and thinkers to select a lecture from our historical Lecture Archive’s recordings and “perform” it anew. As part of this series, Li-Ming Hu (@outraged994 ) will join us and create new gestures, intonations, and subjectivities from the sounds of Andrea Fraser’s 2008 Visiting Faculty Lecture. Reperforming the recording and working with the glitch of sound and transmission, Li-Ming plays with Andrea’s likeness as she does with Andrea’s voice—layering their mutual use of costume in performance. Our public programs are free and open to all. Link in bio to RSVP. *** Image: Li-Ming Hu, 2026. Courtesy the artist This series is developed in collaboration with Skowhegan Alliance member Bryson Rand (@bryson_d_rand ). #skowheganschoolofpaintingandsculpture #andreafraser

Last weekend to see 'Is It You Or Is It Me?' at Plomacy, which includes the Aotearoa debut of my fur paintings. Plomacy, 8 Brown Street, Ponsonby Central, Auckland 1021 Open Friday-Sunday 11am-3pm, closes Dec 21. 1 & 2: Down at the Diner, 2025. Faux fur on canvas, 75 x 1250 cm. 3 & 4: The Screaming, 2025. Faux fur on canvas, 60.96 cm x 45.72 cm.

Another ceramics season, full of time devouring, not knowing till it's fired, risks at every step of breakages, cracking, crazing, running, warping, then having to pack it for air travel, but I wouldn't be without it for keeping the hands busy while processing the intangible. Li-Mei's Tomb Guardians, 2025. Glazed porcelain, 32.5 x 15 x 16.5 cm and 39.5 x 18 x 17.5 cm. On view now in NZ @plomacy_akl till Dec 21 and another version @goetheinstitut_newyork till Dec 11

So glad to be back in Tāmaki Makaurau for my show 'Is it you or is it me?' @plomacy_akl . Opens this Saturday 15 Nov at 4pm - would love to see you there! 1. I’d been acting on Shortland St for three and a half years, and seen many actors come and go. So when the new producer, the undead looking one from Australia, asked for a meeting with me and my agent, I knew I was cooked. Around the same time, a local singer called Wing was achieving international notoriety. Off-key and out of time, her Hong Kong Chinese accent was the ideal of which every casting director dreamed when they typed ‘Asian accent required’ on a casting brief. She sang Beat It on Good Morning, Abba on South Park, and seemed admirably oblivious to condescension. On learning that my character was to have a funeral, I suggested that Wing sing at it. This is what I envisioned had production agreed, with some ceramics. 2. A ‘Li-Ming plays herselves’ kind of deal with a special addendum made for this show. Do you think changing my name would help my career? Let me know. 3. I describe a lot of my works as ‘carnivalesque reenactments’ and here are some in painting form. Video still: Li Mei's Funeral, 2025. Single channel video, 3:13 minutes.

This weekend @goetheinstitut_newyork I'll be there performing my piece Convention 12.30-2 on Sat and 1.30-3 on Sun. They usually have rather unfortunate opening hours of Mon-Thursday, so day jobbers please take advantage and come say hi and see a bunch of work for the first time in NYC! Likenesses: Speaking with the Selves, is up till Dec 4, a two person show with fellow recovering actor @psxcharmaine 1. Convention, 2019/2025. Installation and performance. 2. Still from Boney (Phoney?)M, cingle channel video, 2020.

Performance night this Monday 29th Sept @cprnyc 7.30-9pm, tix $10. It'll go like this: Charmaine Poh @psxcharmaine , 'In the Shadow of the Cosmic', me, "Can It Be I'm Not Meant to Play This Part?' Li-Ming and Charmaine, 'Somewhere between Asian and British!. Part of our Likeneases at @goetheinstitut_newyork

When I got killed off the NZ soap opera Shortland Street, I tried to get NZ singing legend Wing, to perform at my funeral. The producers were t into it, but many years later I've made it happen. The result debuts tonight @goetheinstitut_newyork My joint exhibition with the legendary @psxcharmaine opens TONIGHT in Manhattan from 6-8. And yes RPM fans I will be doing a free signing and would love to see you!

NYC RPM fans! I will be doing a FREE signing this Wednesday at my exhibition opening at the Goethe Institute, 30 Irving Place from 6-8pm, link in bio. Would love to see you there!! #powerrangersrpm #silverranger

Happy to announce a two person show with the fabulous Charmaine Poh @psxcharmaine opens soon at @goetheinstitut_newyork ! Will be the NYC premiere of a bunch of my favorite works plus some new stuff, as well as live performances from both of us on Sept 29. Curated by @zacharias_bernhard.mkv Exhibition Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 24 // 6:00 - 8:30 pm Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place New York, NY 10003 Performances: Monday, September 29 // 7:30 - 9:00 pm Center for Performance Research 361 Manhattan Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211 Central to this exhibition is a biographical experience shared by both artists—television fame at a young age. In the 2000’s, Hu received a breakout role on New Zealand’s popular soap-opera, Shortland Street, and was later cast as the silver operator on Power Rangers RPM, among other roles. Similarly, Poh starred as the character E-Ching in a hit Singaporean children’s detective show, We are R.E.M., around the same time. Coinciding with the unmoderated internet of Web 1.0, both artists experienced a great deal of prejudice and hate alongside their fame, ranging from racial typecasting to sexual harassment and cyberbullying, sometimes breaking the fourth wall of the screen and spilling over into real life. Likenesses: Speaking with the Selves foregrounds not only the parasocial relationship that viewers have with television characters, but also the (dis)connection that actors have with their past roles. Chatrooms and social media have given an unprecedented sense of intimacy between the viewer and the subject, further blurring the boundary between character and actor in their eyes. What, then, can the actor do when the image rights to television shows and commercial reels lie within the purview of faceless corporations? How, then, can one take back control of one’s image? While Hu and Poh diverge in their strategies to answer these questions, they remain steadfast in their efforts to reclaim and maintain agency over their likenesses—both past and present.

My thoughts on art, (and pretty much most things nowadays) often evaporate into the ether soon after forming. This is one attempt at writing some down, and I'm very grateful to @hyperallergic for their support. And also to @michelle.s.im , for making captivating work I just really wanted to talk about. Read entire review @hyperallergic Exhibition up till July 11 @dimin.nyc